Dear LFGers and ParGram contributors,

We have recently held our first f-structure comparison session, which was part of the regular meetings of the ParGram consortium (https://pargram.w.uib.no/). A big thank you to those who attended and contributed to the discussion!

We will continue to hold these meetings online. Anyone who is developing a grammar using the XLE grammar development platform (https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/xle/) is welcome to attend.  We would also welcome participation by anyone using the Grammar Writer's Workbench (https://parc-public.pages-external.parc.com/xle/isl/groups/nltt/medley/).

The second meeting is scheduled for 19 Dec 2023 (UTC 9-11 am). It will continue our discussion of the sentences in ParGram Treebanks (sentences 1, 2 and possibly 3). Those who could not attend the first meeting are also welcome to join us on 19 Dec.

1. The driver starts the tractor.
2. The tractor is red.
3. What did the farmer see?

Zoom Link: https://tcd-ie.zoom.us/j/93770084827?pwd=OEpZampzanZMS2VXMDNkcEJyTU9WZz09
Meeting ID: 937 7008 4827
Passcode: 111795

Similar to the first meeting, all participants will translate these sentences into the language they are working on, and produce and print out the f-structures to PDF. There is no need to print out c-structures.  We have created a Google Drive directory for the f-structures, which currently contains f-structures parsed by English, Norwegian, Polish, Irish, Mandarin, and Welsh grammars.  In advance of the meeting, participants should plan to deposit their f-structures for the sentences there.  Please contact one of us if you would like to have access to this repository.

Please try to model your f-structures on the analyses in the treebank to the extent possible.  In the ParGram consortium, the idea is that differences in f-structures for translational equivalents should reflect syntactic differences between the languages -- there should be no arbitrary differences to do with spelling of feature names or other linguistically irrelevant details.

If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to the list of people with access to the f-structure repository, please send an email to one of us.  We are looking forward to discussing your f-structures!

- Mary Dalrymple, Lawrence (Chit-Fung) Lam, and Elaine Ui Dhonnchadha